Meanwhile, another gigantic tide is fast raging towards Jati tehsil of Thatta district from Mir Khan Mori.

A big floodtide, unleashed form Shahdadkot, has entered Khairpur Nathan Shah tehsil after developing breaches in Khuda Wah Canal, which in turned, has flooded many Kutchi Abadies, government school, college, police station, houses and grid station, cutting electricity supply to city and areas abutting.

Water with 3-feet dept has been flooding most parts of city, surging with constant and slow velocity but alarming, witnesses told media.

More than 5000 stranded people in the heart of city have been impatiently waiting for rescue operation for hours but nevertheless authorities have made no arrangements for transportation of trapped people to safer places, people complained.

Sujawal city is yet submerged under 4-feet deep water.

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Ramms said in an interview with the daily economic newspaper Handelsblatt that the president “looks at things from a point of view that, in no way, we can like.”

Karzai, speaking in Kabul, had said the strategy for Afghanistan needed a rethink and he criticised NATO for civilian deaths in the country.

Ramms reminded Karzai that NATO’’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the counter-insurgency mission in Afghanistan, had played an important role in ensuring his reelection as Afghan president in November 2009.

“As a result he should decide whether he prefers the ISAF and troops from supporting nations, or the Taliban with whom he might want to work in future,” the general said.

Ramms also accused local Afghan authorities of releasing on several occasions members of the Taliban arrested by coalition forces in the north of the country, where German troops are based.

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Two doctors evacuating the sick had to be airlifted to safety after getting trapped on the top floor of the district hospital, the main source of health care for 1.6 million people in Pakistan’’s impoverished northwest.

“Eighty percent of the hospital staff were affected themselves. The water had destroyed their homes, cars and everything. No one was able to come to hospital,” said the hospital’’s chief doctor, Muhammad Arshad.

But since the ruin, caused by monsoon-triggered floods, which swept across the country, a massive volunteer undertaking has allowed the hospital to reopen, and Arshad now sits smiling on donated furniture in his freshly whitewashed office.

The walls that were blackened and buried in mud for a week are now a hygienic white, there are working heart-monitor, X-ray, ultrasound and anesthaesia machines, and the damaged water pipe has been replaced.

“When we arrived to rehabilitate the hospital we had no idea where to start, because every corner of the hospital needed immediate attention,” said Arif Mehmood Siddiqui, the administrative head of Pakistan’’s National University of Science and Technology, who coordinated the volunteer effort.

“What we had was mud and a stinking smell. There was not even a bench to sit on to run a clinic,” he says.

Young doctors from Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, arrived with doctors from international aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres, army engineers and university staff, to roll up their shirt sleeves and save the hospital.

Now, after hard work and donations, the hospital has new mattresses and pillows for all 114 beds, there are new delivery tables for the labour ward and the operating theatres are fully functioning.

“We have rediscovered this hospital from the rubble,” Siddiqui said.

Once the hospital itself had been saved, however, there were hundreds of flood victims waiting for help — meaning extra doctors were quickly needed.

“We ran this hospital for two weeks because the doctors normally on duty were affected themselves. There was a dire need for doctors and medicine and we successfully managed it,” said Rawalpindi doctor Nasir Habib.

The World Health Organization estimates that 4.4 million flood victims have received medical treatment since the floods began in late July, but that number only accounts for those who visited health centres that reported their figures.

Before the floods, this district hospital, situated close to Pakistan’’s militant-riddled tribal areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, handled up to 400 patients each day, but Arshad says nearly 700 now come daily.

Many of them are suffering from water-borne gastric diseases caused by the month-long floods, which threaten to cause a second wave of death among the 18 million affected nationwide.

“Everything is under control, we are ready to fight diarrhoea and can deal with the patient load,” said doctor Fayaz Ahmed, who runs a clinic to counter the diarrhoea epidemic.

For Nabila, whose two-month-old daughter was struck with the illness, the work of the volunteers has saved her family.

“These doctors have given new life to my daughter. I am so thankful to this hospital which has saved my baby from death,” Nabila said.

For Shumaila Khatun, a 29-year-old woman who is due to give birth next month, the reopening of the hospital has brought much-needed relief.

“I am really relieved. Now I can give birth to my baby without worry,” she said.

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Meanwhile, police are trying to determine the nature of blast.

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In his statement, he said ICC Chief Haroon Logart has betrayed Pakistani High Commission (PHC), by telling a lie.

He said: ?Logart visited PHC at 5:30pm and stayed there for an hour.? ?In the meantime, he hinted at avoiding to unnecessarily pressurize Pakistani players besides assuring not to dismiss or suspend trio from playing International Cricket?, he noted.

Subsequently, he left PHC excusing that he had some personal work to do but he issued orders of suspension of three players after a little while, he maintained.

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The US says that’’s the aim of all parties, which met for their first face-to-face talks in almost two years, but Jewish settlements and Hamas attacks remain major stumbling blocks.

Dr. Saeb Erakat, Palestine’’s chief negotiator, told media about two main ways for the negotiations right now.

?I think it?s obvious now that we really hope that when the Israeli government has the choice between settlements and peace, that they will choose peace,? Erakat said. ?The land that?s supposed to be the Palestinian state is being eaten up, annexed, dictated upon by settlements? confiscation, evictions from homes.?

?So if the Israeli government continues with the settlement activities, it means they have locked the door in our faces,? he stated. ?(If they stop settlement activities), I think we can give the negotiations the chance they deserve.?

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“This moment of opportunity may not soon come again,” Obama warned after holding separate meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and the leaders of Egypt and Jordan.

“They cannot afford to let it slip away. Now is the time for leaders of courage and vision to deliver the peace that their people deserve.”

Obama promised to put the “full weight” of the United States behind the effort to forge peace between Israelis and Palestinians in direct talks between the two sides that begin at the State Department on Thursday.

“If both sides do not commit to these talks in earnest, then the long-standing conflict will only continue to fester and consume another generation. This we simply cannot allow.

“We know there will be moments that test our resolve. We know that extremists and enemies of peace will do everything in their power to destroy this effort,” Obama said.

Despite his vow to shepherd the peace talks, Obama warned however that the United States could not simply impose a solution to the decades-long conflict.

“Ultimately the United States cannot impose a solution and we cannot want it more than the parties themselves,” Obama said.

The US leader, who is investing substantial political and diplomatic capital in the effort, also said Israeli and Palestinian leaders had said they believed a deal could be struck within his one-year timeline.

He said that the talks would aim to resolve all of the most testing “final status” issues between the two sides.

“The goal is a settlement, negotiated between the parties that ends the occupation which began in 1967 and results in the emergence of an independent, democratic, and viable Palestinian state living side-by-side in peace and security with a Jewish state of Israel and its other neighbours.”

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The Prime Minister was talking to the Federal Ministers who met him at the Prime Minister House on Thursday to brief him about the rescue and relief operations in different areas as well as damage caused to various kind of infrastructure.

The Prime Minister stressed upon the Ministers to devise means for early restoration of civic amenities and services so that the recovery and reconstruction operations could be launched without any waste of time.

He said that restoration of public utilities will help in mitigating the sufferings of the flood affected people to a great extent.

The Prime Minister urged the Ministers to update the assessment of damages in collaboration with the provincial governments so that assistance could reach to the genuine affected people in time.

He further said that the government had succeeded to create awareness among the Pakistani public and the world community to contribute generously towards the Flood Relief Fund.

The meeting was attended by the Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Livestock, Nazar Muhammad Gondal, the Federal Minister for Water Power, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, The Federal Minister for Information Broadcasting, Qamar Zaman Kaira, the Federal Minister for Labour Manpower, Syed Khurshid Shah and Advisor to the Prime Minister, Senator Raza Rabbani.

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The Jeddah-based pan-Islamic organisation, together with the OIC-sponsored International Islamic Fiqh Academy, said in a statement that Muslims everywhere “should not restrain from helping their Pakistani brothers … and should not leave them alone to their fate.”

The Fiqh academy, a centre of research on Islamic jurisprudence, said that Islamic scholars had ruled that it is acceptable to direct one’’s tithes to other communities and countries than one’’s own.

Islam requires believers to donate 2.5 percent of their income annually to share with others within their community, usually the less privileged.

“The scholars also approved the Muslim’’s choice to pay zakat to those who are more in need of zakat money than the people of the country of origin, such as people affected by different disasters, including floods and earthquakes,” the statement said.

The lives of some 18 million people in Pakistan were affected by the massive flooding along the Indus river beginning in August.

Some eight million are completely dependent on handouts to survive, and Pakistan has said the hundreds of millions of dollars already pledged in aid would not be enough.

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